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This conversation guide provides information for community-based organizations, TB programs, and healthcare providers to talk with their clients about the TB screening and attestation requirements of the Uniting for Ukraine program.

Community Based Organizations Health Professionals Nurses Physicians Social Service Providers
2023

This webpage provides strategies and resources to increase awareness about the TB screening requirements as part of the Uniting for Ukraine program. 

Health Professionals Non-U.S.-born persons Social Service Providers
2023

This 90-minute webinar focuses on how anti-black racism impacts African Americans' access to care and the quality of care they receive. The webinar also includes information on specific strategies for clinicians and programs to consider to improve TB care for African American patients.

Civil Surgeons Educators Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Medical and Nursing School Students Physicians Social Service Providers
2021

This training manual was created to build and strengthen the capacity of people with and affected by TB to better understand the human rights issues and abuses they encounter and be able to respond constructively by building on previous experience in participating in a TB-or and human rights-related activity...

Community Based Organizations Community Leaders Educators General Public Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Outreach Workers Social Service Providers
2019

This guide is for people with tuberculosis (TB), people at risk for TB, and their caretakers. The guide contains information on what services you have the right to receive, as well as your rights related to TB prevention, testing, treatment, and care.

American Indian or Alaska Native persons Asian or Pacific Islander persons Community Leaders Health Educators/Communicators Hispanic or Latino persons Long-term Residential Care Providers Migrant Workers Non-U.S.-born persons People experiencing homelessness Social Service Providers
2018

This handbook focuses specifically on three technologies that are being widely used to help TB patients complete their treatment over the many months that their regimens last.

Civil Surgeons Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers International Agencies Lab Personnel Long-term Care Residents Long-term Residential Care Providers Persons With LTBI Social Service Providers
2018

This facilitators’ guide for training community health workers and community volunteers is intended for training in tuberculosis (TB) and integration of TB prevention and care services into community-based activities.

Community Leaders International Agencies Outreach Workers Social Service Providers
2015

This fact sheet provides general information about TB and why it is a concern for people experiencing homelessness and those working with homeless populations.

Social Service Providers
2014

The Homelessness and TB Toolkit is an online resource developed to assist both public health programs and homeless service agencies in the important work of TB control among people experiencing homelessness. The toolkit contains guidelines, forms, signs, educational materials, articles, and other resources...

Health Professionals Social Service Providers
2014

This document is designed to serve as a handbook, or primer, for NGOs and CSOs that are considering joining the fight against TB. It provides information on TB and how it is prevented, diagnosed, and treated, how TB programs work on the ground, how communities and CSOs can get involved, and special populations that need extra attention...

Community Leaders International Agencies Social Service Providers
2013

Integrating community-based tuberculosis activities into the work of nongovernmental and other civil society organizations.

Community Leaders International Agencies Outreach Workers Social Service Providers
2013

This video helps train all shelter staff and volunteers about how to prevent the spread of TB in homeless shelters. It describes what TB is, how it is spread, what to do when you suspect someone has TB, how to develop and implement a TB infection control policy, and how you and your local health department can work together to create a healthy and safe environment for staff and clients...

Managers and Supervisors Social Service Providers
2013

The purpose of this document is to provide operational guidance to NGOs and other CSOs and NTPs or their equivalents in implementing and scaling-up integrated community-based TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care using the ENGAGE-TB approach described in the document. The principles are aligned with the Stop TB Strategy and are complementary to existing guidelines for engaging all health care providers (including NGOs) in TB prevention and care as part of a public–private mix.

Community Leaders International Agencies Social Service Providers
2012

A 2-hour webinar focuses on tools and strategies State and local health departments can use to help private providers (including Federally Qualified Health Centers, Community Health Clinics, HMOs, and smaller practice practitioners) get up-to-speed on the diagnosis and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI).

Health Professionals Managers and Supervisors Social Service Providers
2012

This manual provides student health centers at colleges and universities with a guide for developing and implementing a TB screening and testing program. It includes many helpful resources that can be modified and used by individual campuses.

Health Professionals Social Service Providers
2011